How common are paper submissions rejected? The realities of trying to publish research
How common are paper submissions rejected? What should your expectations be when you submit a paper for publication?
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0:00 Low acceptance rates are common
1:27 Build resilience to rejection
2:05 Life sciences example
2:50 Social sciences example
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Greetings, this is Emily from Uni-edit, and I'd like to welcome you to this video.
The publication process can be fickle (changing frequently) , arduous (difficult), and time consuming (taking a lot of time). Journals have their own objectives, administration, and expectations on the quality of science they aim to publish.
Therefore, publication standards and expectations vary among journals. This means the competition for publication can be fierce and it is common to expect low acceptance rates for submitted papers. You can expect to receive many many journal rejections during your career as an academic researcher.
Top-tier high impact-factor journals, such as Nature and Science claim to have a 3% acceptance rate. Therefore, submitting to higher impact factor journals first can result in rejections from multiple journals before finally being accepted by one.
The key to tackling this problem is building resilience to rejection and accepting rejection as common and necessary practice. Knowing that initial paper acceptance is a rare event and all academics experience rejection on all submitted papers will help you create effective strategies to more publish more efficiently, including
1. making effective use of time
2. knowing the journals within your field that are best suited to your work
3. using available publishing resources.
Practical example for Life Sciences
Within the life sciences, the acceptance rate can be, on average, 25% per paper submission. That is, for every four fresh submissions to a different journal, on average only one will end up finally being published, even after possible multiple rounds of revision.
This is an indicator of the journal initially considering your paper, which excludes the time spent responding to reviewer comments. Therefore, submitting your paper will require multiple attempts to different journals before one journal makes a decision to accept your paper.
Practical example for Social Sciences
The frequency of rejection in the social sciences will depend primarily on three things:
the level of the journal the manuscript has been submitted to,
the methodological soundness of the research,
and the novelty of the research findings.
In all cases, methodological soundness is a critical factor for acceptance and thus researchers should focus on establishing it in their work. Novelty of research findings is often the second most important factor in ensuring publication, however, it still cannot ensure that your research will be accepted.
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